THE LONDON MUSE VICTORIAN POETIC RESPONSES TO THE CITY
Written by William B. Thesing
Published by The University of Georgia Press
in 1982
ISBN: 0820306193
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- LONDON
- POETRY
THE LONDON MUSE VICTORIAN POETIC RESPONSES TO THE CITY
Written by William B. Thesing.
Stock no. 2134290
Circa.
1982.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Burgundy cloth with gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0820306193. Wrapper is faded to spine and a couple of edges; some edge-tears and creasing.
Front cover
Contents
- Chapter One. Romantic Versions of the City
- I. The Celestial City in the Poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, and Tennyson
- II. Blake's Urban Vision: The Poetry of /communal Renewal
- III. Wordsworth's Urban Vision: Distant Glimpses
- IV. Tennyson's Urban Vision: Historical Tremors and Hysterical Tremblings
- Chapter Two. Realism Versus Escapism, 1850 - 1870
- I. The Call to Teat the City Realistically
- II. The Indeterminacy of Clough's Poetry about the City
- III. Alexander Smith: The City and the Country
- IV. Matthew Arnold: The Promise of Urban Repose in the Future
- V. Walker and Buchanan: groping and Coping in the City
- Chapter Three. The Urban Volcano, 1870 - 1890
- I. Society's Equilibrium Challenged by Depression and Riots
- II. Hopkins and Patmore: The Active Crater
- III. Noel and Morris: From Observation to Revolution
- IV. James Thomson: The City as Wasteland
- Chapter Four. The Poetry of the Nineties
- I. New Ways to Write Poetry about the City
- II. Forms and Types of Poetry about London
- III. Locker-Lampson, Dobson, and Binyon: Dim8inished Visions
- IV. Wilde and Symons: The Cult of Artifice and Impressionism
- V. Henley and Davidson: London's Energies
- Epilogue
- Continuities: The Urban Responses of D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot